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York, St Peter's Hospital 18 OCTOBER 2016 H1 YORK, ST PETER’S HOSPITAL 1 actswilliam2henry1.wordpress.com Release date Version notes Who Current version: H1-YorkStPeterHosp-2016-1 21/10/2016 Original version DXC Previous versions: ———— This text is made available through the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivs License; additional terms may apply Authors for attribution statement: Charters of William II and Henry I Project David X Carpenter, Faculty of History, University of Oxford YORK, ST PETER’S HOSPITAL County of Yorkshire : Diocese of York Founded in the reign of William II The foundation of St Peter’s hospital by the canons of York minster during the reign of William II is discussed in the Headnote for W2. The hospital’s cartulary, which dates from the early fifteenth century, and the chancery enrolments of the hospital’s charters and deeds are also discussed there. The earliest documents in favour of the hospital that were preserved in its archive (excluding forged acts in the name of William II and Henry I) are from the 1130s. An act of Archbishop Thurstan confirming the gift of Lambert of Fossgate, referred to in the note for 000 § 3, Regesta 1327 below, was given towards the end of the reign of Henry I. Deeds of Alan [I] de Percy and William his son date from c. 1130 × 1136 (Clay, Early Yorkshire Charters, xi. 22–3, nos. 6–7; Ctl. York St Leonard, Rawlinson, 733–5, R642–3); a deed of Bertram of Bulmer was given after he succeeded his father c. 1129 and before Hugh dean of York retired in 1135 (Farrer, Early Yorkshire Charters, ii. 120– 21, no. 783); Henry, son of King David I of Scotland, gave land by deed datable 1136 × 1141 (Ctl. York St Leonard, Rawlinson, 162, R112). Two earlier acts have been preserved in the archive of the dean and chapter of York. William II’s charter giving the dean and canons a plot of land for the construction of a hospital is discussed in the headnote for W2. Nigel d’Aubigny’s deed of 1109 × 1114, addressed to Archbishop Thomas, the sheriff, and all the barons of Yorkshire, restores lands in Upper Helmsley that he had taken from the brethren of the 18 OCTOBER 2016 H1 YORK, ST PETER’S HOSPITAL 2 hospital, and makes a gift of land in an unidentified Thornton (Greenway, Mowbray Charters, 12–13, no. 7). It is probably no coincidence that at about the same time as the hospital’s archive was established the name of the master of the hospital is first recorded. Robert ‘of the hospital’ is mentioned in an account of the dispute at St Mary’s abbey in 1132 which is contained in a letter of Archbishop Thurstan to William de Corbeil, archbishop of Canterbury. Robert remained as master until 1157 × 1164 (Ctl. York St Leonard’s, Rawlinson, 930–31). The hospital is first mentioned in historical accounts under the year 1137, when John of Worcester, referring to it as the domus hospitalis, noted its destruction by fire along with the minster, the abbey of St Mary and thirty-nine York churches (ed. McGurk, iii, 228–31). Christopher Norton has suggested that there was no fire in 1137, and that John of Worcester’s description of conflagration came about through a misreading of an account of a grand ceremony of consecration. Norton’s version of events fits better with what we know of York’s archaeology and history (C. Norton, ‘The York fire of 1137: conflagration or consecration?’, Northern History 34 (1998), 194–204). The three acts in the name of Henry I are forgeries, and it is very doubtful whether there were ever any authentic acts of Henry I in favour of the hospital. A short passage in a life of Archbishop Thurstan claims that Henry I gained his barons’ consent for the hospital’s thraves, a render of corn first noticed in charters and deeds early in the reign of Henry II, as described in more detail in the headnote for W2:1 Post multum uero temporis tenuit uetus rex Henricus suum natale apud Eboracum et per consilium Thurstini archiepiscopi ad petitionem Matildis bone regine inpetrauit dictus rex a baronibus qui conuenerant ad festum eius, de singulis carucis Eboracensisscirie singulas trauas bladi in usus hospitalis sancti Leonardi in Eboraco. After much time King Henry held his Christmas (feast) at York, and by the counsel of Archbishop Thurstan, at the petition of the good Queen Matilda, the said king obtained 1 ‘Vita Thurstini archiepiscopi auctore anonymo’, in Raine, Historians of the Church of York, ii. 259–69, at p. 266. Raine’s source is BL MS Cotton Tiberius A. xix, fols. 53r– 56v, ‘Vita beati Thurstani archiepiscopi Eboracensis’. The date of compilation of the uita, contained in an historical and verse miscellany of s. xv2–xvi2, is unknown. It includes poems attributed to Hugh, a monk of Pontefract, and Geoffrey Turcuple. Raine remarked on the disparate nature of its components: ‘the first is written by a partizan of Canterbury, the verses by ardent friends of Turstin’. 18 OCTOBER 2016 H1 YORK, ST PETER’S HOSPITAL 3 from his barons that had gathered at his feast, from each plough in Yorkshire a thrave of corn for the use of the hospital of Saint Leonard in York. This account, like Henry’s charters, can safely be dismissed. Between the nomination of Thurstan in August 1114 and the death of Queen Matilda in May 1118 the king was in England at Christmas once only, in 1115, when he was at St Albans. No other source places Henry in York at Christmas in any year of the reign.2 King Stephen took an interest in the development of the hospital, and his charters, seven in number, have the place of honour at the beginning of the cartulary (Ste/307a, 989–94). He gave six bovates of land in Woolthwaite and Bagley, both near Tickhill, as well the tithes of the toll and of the mills of Tickhill, in 1136 × 1148 (Ste/994).3 It has been suggested that he was also responsible for the gift of two carucates in Acomb (note to 000 § 1, Regesta 1889), and it may have been Stephen who first gave estovers in the forests of Yorkshire (below, 000, Regesta 1328; Ste/989). The late Historia fundationis says that ‘Stephen built in the said hospital a certain church in honour of St Leonard, and from then onwards it was called St Leonard’s hospital’ (Monasticon, vi. 609a). While there is no charter of Stephen establishing the hospital’s new church it is almost certain that he attended its consecration in late summer 1154 with Archbishop Theobald of Canterbury. William of Newburgh, I 32, ed. Howlett, i. 94–5, records that the king was at the seige of Drax and in York at harvest time 1154, before returning southwards about the end of September, just a few weeks before his death on 25 October. Several of Stephen’s acts are datable to this last visit to Yorkshire: as well as his grant to the hospital of 40s from the farm of York, place-dated at York and attested by Archbishop Theobald (Ste/993), he gave acts in favour of Pontefract priory (Ste/664), Sallay abbey (Ste/797), Selby abbey (Ste/817), and Lincoln cathedral (Ste/490). The archbishopric of York had been vacant since the death of Archbishop William on 8 June 1154. Theobald had previously avoided any action in the northern province, but visited during the vacancy in his capacity of papal legate. He was doubtless anxious to have some influence in the choice of the new archbishop of York. His preferred 2 J. Green, Henry I, King of England and Duke of Normandy (Cambridge, 2006), 20– 21, interprets ‘suum natale’ to mean the king’s birthday, but there is no doubt that Christmas was intended (see e.g. E. W. M. Balfour-Melville, ‘The date of the birth of James I of Scotland’, EHR 50 (1935), 490–92). 3 Dated 1148 × 1154 by the editors of Regesta, but it is more likely that the gift was made before Pope Eugenius’s confirmation of 1148. 18 OCTOBER 2016 H1 YORK, ST PETER’S HOSPITAL 4 candidate, Roger of Pont L’Evêque, was duly elected, and Theobald consecrated him at Westminster on 10 October 1154.4 Theobald’s presence at the dedication of St Leonard’s church is apparent in his act for ‘Robert, warden of the hospital house of York city’ (‘custos hospitalis domus Ebor’ ciuitatis’), which includes a list of financial pledges, ‘hec quoque beneficia in dedicatione ecclesie beati Leonardi prefatae domui ad usum pauperum annuatim reddenda sub nostra presencia promissa sunt’ (‘furthermore these gifts, to be rendered annually for the use of the poor people, were promised in our presence at the dedication of the church of St Leonard of the foresaid house’). Among the pledges so noted were King Stephen’s gift of 40s, and gifts by Richard de Canville and Eustace fitz John, both of whom witnessed the king’s gift (Saltman, Theobald, 514–15, no. 285; Farrer, Early Yorkshire Charters, i. 155–6, no. 185). King Stephen’s support for the hospital placed it in a difficult position on the accession of Henry II. William of Newburgh records the king’s policy towards gifts made by his predecessor (William of Newburgh, II 2; ed. Howlett, i. 103). The king, reflecting that the royal revenues, which in the time of his grandfather had been very ample, were greatly reduced because, through the indolence of King Stephen, they had for the most part passed away to numerous other masters, commanded them to be restored entire by the usurper, of whatsoever degree, and brought back to their former jurisdiction and condition.
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